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Chris Christie Is Mad He Wasn’t Invited to the Party
According to reporting, a new book by former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie isn’t taking any prisoners:
🚨 Exclusive look @ Christie unleashed: Trump surrounded by “amateurs , grifters, weaklings, convicted and unconvicted felons”https://t.co/KrKbk7JrJf
— Jim VandeHei (@JimVandeHei) January 16, 2019
Is there anyone more bitter than Chris Christie? At a critical point in the Trump primary campaign, Chris Christie’s endorsement fueled purely by his own ambition and cold calculations, catapulted Trump into a much more viable candidate than he was the day before. Christie lent Trump his credibility, and thanks to the machinations of Jared Kushner, was never rewarded for his trouble.
Kushner’s decision to block appointments for the former New Jersey Governor was purely personal: Christie was the prosecutor who put his father in prison. A family man, Kushner never forgot, even if his father was indeed guilty, and successfully lobbied his father-in-law as payback for what was done to his father.
And you know what? I don’t even care. Kushner made sure his father-in-law dropped a grifter and an opportunist. And the evidence of that grift and opportunism is Christie’s behavior with his new book. Christie isn’t a good guy himself. All of the charges he’s leveling against Trump could have been made before his decision to endorse him, and they were, by many people. Christie knew what he was getting into bed with, and decided to do so anyway because he thought it’d mean becoming Attorney General. Only when his endorsement didn’t lead to a job did Christie have this lightning bolt realization about Trump’s inner circle. Give me a break.
Hopefully, unlike the Comey book, the Resistance won’t give Christie the satisfaction of a best-seller payout. He doesn’t deserve it.
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Christie has a right to be mad – he’d been assured there’d be appetizers.
Judging from the headline, I thought this was going to be a follow-up to your previous post about the White House burger feast.
Government and politics is a ridiculous way to make a living.
The day after Trump was finally staggered in a debate with Cruz and Rubio, Christie endorsed Trump, creating a new narrative. Shame on Chris Christie. He knew better.
Special scorn must be saved for Christie, the first Governor who endorsed Trump, just as it must be reserved for the first Senator, Jeff Sessions, and the first Representative Chris Collins. They betrayed Conservatism by their embrace of this grifter.
They are all prostitutes. The End.
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This isn’t really my bag, but I know a lot of Republicans were very upset when Christie literally physically embraced Obama at the site of the hurricane damage right before the 2012 election. I guess that type of thing swings votes.
Who is honorable and constructive?
We were hoping that Obama had literally been crushed and would be forced to withdraw from the race. Damn!
I think you meant say they *saved* conservatism by endorsing. Without Trump, conservatism takes some progressive Kasich path. Instead, it goes on pause and gets to reset. During the pause we get a non-conservative that governs like a conservative. Hopefully afterwards, the GOP has found a winable conservative and the country has recovered from the fever it was under from Obama. It is the best of all possible outcomes.
Another prostitute. Now he’s at CNN. One wonders how many anti-Trump GOP think he’s just swell.
I think Christie’s implosion as NJ governor probably did him in more than any beef with Kushner.
First it was the bridge thing and then it was the beach thing.
Hysterical. This reminds me of Christie’s pathetic pandering of Jerry Jones in the skybox in Dallas … awkward
A woman scorned and all …
Something tells me it’s a bad idea to have so much centralized power that needs seizing so people can make money. What a joke.
which reminds me of an even more famous awkward hug …
0: Um … hey there big fella, don’t go in for the full hug.
He was mad he wasn’t invited to the feast the Clemson Tigers had . . .
“Trump surrounded by ‘amateurs , grifters, weaklings, convicted and unconvicted felons’” and Christie so desperately wanted to be one of them.
As a Jet fan (yeah, that’s still a thing . . . sort of), that did nothing for me but I know a lot of Giant fans who vowed to never vote for Christie again after that photo.
No, without Trump we would have had (a) a constitutional consevative with Ted Cruz, or (b) an incredible likable Marco Rubio who would give us a breakthrough in the Hispanic community.
I know a lot of Republicans focus on the embrace but I really don’t care about that. This is what angered me about Christie and that period. The Democrats wanted a fat, pork-filled hurricane relief package that would spread money far and wide, beyond the hurricane zone. Republicans wanted a leaner package that sent help to the disaster zone, and that’s it. If Chris Christie were the fiscal conservative he claimed to be, he should have endorsed the Republican package. Instead, he absolutely blasted the heartless Republicans and stuck up for the Democrat’s pork-fest.
Its kinda the way Trump treated all his political endorsers. You could argue, that of all the people that endorsed Trump, Nikki Hayley is the only one to get some mileage from it. Looking over the wikipedia list of endorsements, none stand out as clear winners.
A guy from New Joisey complaining about this is rich.
Yes, he forgot unindicted co-conspirators.